Authentic Happiness Quotes by Epictetus

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Epictetus has 365 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much…
• It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
• A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.
• Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
• Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
• To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God
• Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a…
• Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
• Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but…
• The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
• I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
• What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?

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